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From NJ to Guatemala and back. Brian Najarro COMM 115 11/22/11. Outline. First five years in New Jersey Twelve years in Guatemala Back in the US. First 5 years in New Jersey. I was born in Newton, New Jersey (Northwest) on November 7, 1988. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Brian NajarroCOMM 115
11/22/11
From NJ to Guatemala and back
o First five years in New Jersey
Twelve years in Guatemala
Back in the US
Outline
o I was born in Newton, New Jersey (Northwest) on November 7, 1988.
o Born of a Ecuadorian mother and Guatemalan father that met in NY.
o I lived there for these first 5 years.
o Attended the local St. Joseph’s elementary school.
o At the age of 5 my father decided we were moving to his homeland, Guatemala.
First 5 years in New Jersey
Twelve Years in Guatemala
Guatemala is located in Central America, bordering Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. The southwest coast rests along the Pacific Ocean, and the eastern shores nestle into the Gulf of Honduras between Honduras and Belize.
Guatemala is about a country about the size of Tennessee.
Twelve Years in Guatemala
I lived in a small
Town calledEl
Progreso, Jutiapa.
http://www.munielprogreso.gob.gt/
Twelve Years in Guatemala
Twelve Years in GuatemalaDriving into El Progreso through the
Calzada el Bosque.
Twelve Years in Guatemala
Climbed el Cerro de Suchitan (6699 ft)
in September of 2006.
“La Piedrona”
Back in the U.S.I moved back to New Jersey literally the day after I graduated form High School in Guatemala (2006).
I left the country without telling anyone at all that I was leaving to probably never come back (personal reasons).
Even though I was coming back home, I left the world as I knew it for the last 12 years behind.
It was without a doubt, one of the hardest and saddest moments of my life so far.
Back in the U.S.I am currently studying at King’s College, in pursuit of a Spanish
Major and a Mass Communications minor.
I'm proud and thankful to have been born in
America, but Guatemala and it’s great people made me the person I am today.
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